The Martial Unity

"Why did he go out of his way to do such a thing?" Rui wondered. "It sounds like a lot more effort than is really needed. Why is it that both of you can't just choose pupils like normal teachers would?"

"Hah!" She snorted at his question. "Do you have any idea of how many people clamor to be accepted as our pupils? I don't have the time or energy to sort through all of them to find the best one."

"I'm aware, but Martial Masters possess a lot of insight, don't they? Isn't it easy for you to make instantaneous evaluations of people you lay your eyes on?"

"I can't be bothered with all of that." She shrugged. "I much prefer something more exciting like setting up a challenge, like finding me in the Shadow Isles, though that had become stale until you arrived. He has his own version of that."

"Hmmm..." Rui considered her words.

It was precisely because he planned on learning from the Hypnomaster that he wanted to gain as much information from someone who knew him more intimately than the Beggar's Sect.

Of course, the Beggar's Sect's intelligence was valuable as well, they provided a much more thorough and rigorous overview than Master Reina did. He wanted to gather as much information as he could have.

"He accepts students less frequently than I do, you know." She remarked. "I think the last time he accepted a student was perhaps nearly six or seven years ago? Something like that. So it's not going to be easy. Not even for you."

learn, the challenges he would need to overcome to reach the Hypnomaster were overwhelming in and of

far as he was concerned. It has been a while since he had truly pushed himself to the limit in regard to a specific ambition

get back

obliged, closing his eyes as he returned to the newly-created

a better name.' Rui mused, before

He was not proud of his naming sense, but it couldn't be helped. He usually named a project after he squeezed his

chugging away at the project, making progress every second. One of the biggest issues that he had was project management. The complexity of this project was not different from that of

had fixed up the smaller details such as the framerate, definition, perspective, and

is to thoroughly trick my subconsciousness into thinking that Master Uma is actually on the battlefield and is attacking both me and my opponent or target.' Rui mused. 'I should add an element of customizing the mental simulation to overlap my environment perception to the project.

convinced he was, the more convinced his

the time being. Time passed as

that his fear of Master Uma was quite real. He did not need to fake it,

just needed to

Shadow was also terrifying, even more

had earnestly passed on the principles of assassination